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?a1400 Chester Pl. (1843–7) 31 And enmitye betwene you towe..I shall make.

1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 379/3 By cause there shold noo debate ne enemyte falle betwene the brethren.

a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation (1847) I. 147 This inemitie [1732 inamitie] was judged mortall, and without all hope of reconciliatioun.

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 541 So civill and temperate were mens enmities at that time.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II ii. ii. 68 I will dispaire and be at enmitie With cousening Hope. View more context for this quotation

1602 W. Segar Honor Mil. & Civill i. iii. 4 When the Romanes were divided, one faction labouring to oppresse another..such enimitie was called Sedition.

1611 Bible (King James) James iv. 4 Know yee not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? View more context for this quotation

1667 S. Pepys Diary 26 Aug. (1974) VIII. 401 It will prevent much trouble by having of him out of their envy.

a1704 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §149 In an age at enmity with all restraint.

1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 188 The growing enmity of opinion to the punishment of death.

1845 H. J. Stephen New Comm. Laws Eng. II. 407 Provided their parents were not at the time in enmity with our sovereign.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 581 The adventures, the attachments, the enmities of the lords and ladies who, etc.